UPDATED with 911 audio: 3 shot on Sylvester Street, suspect arrested

An 18-year-old Akron man has been arrested in connection with the Jan. 20 shooting of three people in the Sylvester Street parking lot of the Discovericlub daycare on Wooster Road N.

Quawlin Mabry, of Ogle Terrace in Akron, was arrested this morning by Barberton Police detectives and the U.S. Marshals Northeast Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force. He was taken to the Barberton City Jail and was arraigned in Barberton Municipal Court Jan. 22 at 1 p.m.

UPDATE: No suspects have been taken into custody. Any further information will be published in the Thursday, Jan. 25 issue of The Barberton Herald.

Barberton Police are investigating the shootings about 9 p.m. of three people in the Sylvester Street parking lot of the Discovericlub on Wooster Road North. The victims were taken to hospitals. Their conditions or identities are not being released by police. More information will be posted as it becomes available.

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Sometimes it appears that we’re reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation.We seem to be reaching an “age of the gross”.Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.The young-and by this I don’t mean by any stretch of the imagination all the young,but I’m talking about those who claim to speak for the young-at the zenith of physical power and sensitivity overwhelm themselves with drugs and artificial stimulants.Subtlety is lost and fine distinctions based on acute reasoning are carelessly ignored in a headlong jump to a predetermined conclusion.Life is visceral rather than intellectual and the most visceral practitioners of life are those who characterize themselves as intellectuals.Truth to them is revealed rather than logically proved and the principal infatuations of today revolve around the social sciences-those subjects which can accommodate any opinion and about which the most reckless conjecture cannot be discredited.The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn.The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as “the generation gap”.A spirit of national masochism prevails encouraged by an effete core of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

This is all sad prayers to family members of victims and family of shooter ive been through this its difficult my family didnt live weather over drugs or girl or anything it makes no sense people are getting murdered just sitting on thier porch or walking down the street its sad

I saw this happen first hand. In my opinion it was self defense. When 4-5 grown men attack a skinny 18 year old kid he wasn’t left with many options. Wish he wouldn’t have fire a gun so close to my house, but in his place I would have probably done the same. They were threatening him and ran across the street to attack him. People shouldn’t be so quick to judge.

First off…. A girl come banginh on my door asking for help cause a guy was getting ready to start a gun fight. It was 1 other couple. The guy was 48 his wife 43. And then my husband and i. He is 23. Im 27. The lady didnt even get in the middle of anything. It was just the two guys and then me. I didnt even hear that it wad a gun fight. By the time i got out there with the bat he shot us. We didnt even touch him.

Do we really need to know an 18 yr old with a gun? And why would I shut up? Why does my opinion not deserve to served up next to yours or anyone else’s. Y’all need to understand a social medium when Y’all see one. Take a moment and help us understand the reason for shooting them there people.

A few years back,while walking into the convenient store on 5th by circle k there was a kid walking into the store ahead of me.He swung the door open and stepped to the side to allow me in first.I said thank you buddy and made a mental note of how rare that is nowadays in kids his age.A week later I was reading about the murders on the east side when I saw his picture.I felt the same way I do now writing this.Fighting back tears.Then rage.How dare these low life scumbags take that little kid and his family’s life! He was such a quiet,polite kid.I never got the chance to repay the favor and hold the door for him.Absolutely ridiculous! I’ll never forget that.

Just heard on the news that this shooting wasn’t about drugs. That’s the good news. Bad news is that it was because of a girl!!!! Guess I ‘m too old for the logic….pull out a gun because my ex is with someone else?!! No one that I know would ever do that for the sake of a woman!! Hope she feels special now.

Allow the Light of Jesus Christ open ur hearts.
These negative comments are not helping those families that are suffering these tragedies.
If u cannot Gelp the Situation, Pray for ur. Pray for All of us, before we all are eaten by Our Own Personal Demons!!
U Reap what u Sow, but if U r spreading Hate, Hate will cone back 10 fold!!
I am not perfect.
I try hard everyday to be better than I was yesterday, ho throw some stones at a mirror, and allow God to save ur shattered Mind, ur broken Body, and Ur Torn Soul.
God Bless Us, Every One…
Amen.
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